"Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints."
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Making of America
"Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints."
Afghanistan Digital Library
"The immediate objective of the Afghanistan Digital Library is to retrieve and restore the first sixty years of Afghanistan’s published cultural heritage. The project is collecting, cataloging, digitizing, and making available over the Internet as many Afghan publications from the period 1871–1930 as it is possible to identify and locate. In addition to books, this will eventually include all published serials, documents, pamphlets, and manuals. Phase 1 of the project, undertaken in 2005, has drawn materials from the collections of several private collectors as well as from the holdings of New York University Library and the British Library. Phase 2, undertaken in 2006, has trained a staff at the National Archives in Kabul in conservation and digitization and is engaged in the cataloging and digitization of materials held in various public and private collections inside Afghanistan. In time the project plans to carry the dissemination of Afghan publications through the period between 1931 and 1950. Providing universal availability to this broad historical span of Afghanistan’s published history, and in the process constructing a national bibliography for the country, the Afghanistan Digital Library will reconstruct an essential part of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage."
EuroDocs
An "[o]utstanding collection of links to Western European historical documents."
The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
"The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text.
The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are included for the sake of completeness and balance and because in many cases they are by our definition a supporting document."
A Chronology of United States Historical Documents
"A comprehensive site which gives pointers to important United States historical documents that can be found on the Internet."
Northwestern University Library: 16th-20th Century Maps of Africa
"This site features digital copies of 113 antique maps of Africa and accompanying text dating from the mid 16th Century to the early 20th Century. All scanned maps are authentic and originally collected by the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies (or the Africana Library) at Northwestern University."
Sub-Saharan African History (University of Washington)
Websites categorized by country and region; online archives; visual sources.
The History Guide: Resources for Historian
This extensive listing of online archives and document collections covers every period of European and "Western" history. This page is a subsection of The History Guide, a website created by Steven Kreis. The website also contains lectures, teaching resources and course syllabi. A real goldmine!!!
"Primary Documents
A Chronology of United States Historical Documents
A comprehensive site which gives pointers to important United States historical documents that can be found on the Internet. (Oklahoma)
A Chronology of United States Historical Documents
A comprehensive site which gives pointers to important United States historical documents that can be found on the Internet. (Oklahoma)
American Memory
Historical Collections for the National Digital Library at the Library of Congress. Photographs, prints, documents, films, maps and sound recordings.
Mary Evans Picture Library
"Mary Evans Picture Library licences images for commercial use in books, newspapers, magazines, adverts, web sites and all manner of other media.Our images cover a broad range of topics and subject areas which, although coming under the umbrella classification of history, in fact, extend far beyond most people's perception of historical pictures.
Our material has traditionally been used in an editorial context to illustrate news stories, magazine articles and the like, but today it is increasingly sought by creatives looking for different and stimulating imagery around which to base advertising campaigns or commercial design projects.
German History in Documents and Images
"(GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts, all of which are accompanied by new English translations, and a wide range of visual imagery. The materials are presented in ten sections,which have been compiled by leading scholars. All of the materials can be downloaded free of charge for teaching, research, and related purposes; the site is strictly intended for individual, non-commercial use."Beineke Rare Book and Manuscript Archive (Yale University)
Main Website: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/index.html
Digital Materials: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary/
A major collection of visual primary sources spanning the medieval to modern periods. "Search for photographs, textual documents, illuminated manuscripts, maps, works of art, and books from the Beinecke's collections."
"African Americana; American Literature; British Manuscripts; Early Americana; Early Books and Manuscripts, pre-1601; German Literature; Modern Books and Manuscripts, 1601 to present; Western Americana."
The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, 1769-1794
"The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe project uses database technology to map the trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a celebrated Swiss publishing house that operated between 1769 and 1794.
As the STN sold the works of other publishers alongside its own editions, their archives can be considered a representative source for studying the history of the book trade and dissemination of ideas in the late Enlightenment.
Using state of the art database, web interface and GIS technology, the project will provide a user-friendly resource for use by scholars, teachers and students of French literature and history, book history, the Enlightenment and bibliography more generally.
This resource will be publically launched in mid-2011, and will be freely available on this website."
Encyclopedia of Diderot and D'Alembert
"This site has been designed to make accessible to teachers, students, and other interested English- language readers translations of articles from the Encyclopédie edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert in the 18th century."
Modern Editions of Early Modern French Sources
"Art; Colonialism and New France; Correspondence; Crime and Jurisprudence; Education; Encyclopedie; Enlightenment: Anthologies; Enlightenment: Authors; History Writing; Homosexuality; Literary Sources; Louix XIV; Memoirs and Journals; Music; Philosophy; Political History; Political Thought; Religion; Revolution; Science; Social History; Travels; Utopias; War; Witchcraft; Women"
Internet Women's History Sourcebook
"How are historians to remedy the silence about women in many traditional accounts of history? This question has received a number of distinct answers.
The first solution was to locate the great women of the past, following the lead of much popular historiography that focuses on "great men". The problem here is that just as the "great men" approach to history sidelines and ignores the lives of the mass of people, focusing on great women merely replicates the exclusionary historical approaches of the past.
The next solution was to examine and expose the history of oppression of women. This approach had the merit of addressing the life histories of the mass of women, but, since it has proved to be possible to find some degree of oppression everywhere, it tended to make women merely subjects of forces that they could not control. On the other hand, historians' focus on oppression revealed that investigating the structures of women's lives was crucial.
British History Online
"British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research."
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
"The Michigan State University Library and the MSU Museum have partnered to create an online collection of some of the most influential and important American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. The goal of this project is to make these materials available to a wider audience.
Digital images of the pages of each cookbook are available as well as full-text transcriptions and the ability to search within the books, across the collection, in order to find specific information."
Death in the Pot: Food Adulteration and Culinary Chemistry
"A slideshow entitled Death in the Pot draws from holdings of Special Collections concerning food adulteration and culinary chemistry. The title of the slideshow is taken from one of Frederick Accum's many treatises on food adulteration and culinary poisons; and most of the works highlighted come from the Duveen and Cole collections on chemistry and date from the 18th and 19th centuries."
“A Goodly, Huge Cabinet”: Books About Cabinets of Curiosities and Early Museums
"Francis Bacon’s plan for the increase of human knowledge encompassed artifact and book, museum and library, and called for “a goodly, huge cabinet” filled with treasures real and artificial. This slideshow (in four parts, rich in images and drawing upon the holdings of the Department of Special Collection) highlights books as printed museums. Indeed, the texts and images included constitute all we know of some early museums and cabinets of curiosities, since the contents of many such collections have long since been dispersed. A title list with full bibliographical details is also available."
Gardens of Knowledge: An Exhibit of Books About Botanical Gardens
"To scholars and students of botany, botanical gardens serve as living libraries; and books related to botanical gardens take the metaphor one step further. This virtual exhibit, based upon a real exhibit in the Department of Special Collections in November 1999-January 2000, highlights books on botanical gardens from the holdings of Special Collections. When the actual exhibit was installed, the weather outside was cold and gray, but the lush illustrations of botanical gardens and their contents served to remind us of growing seasons past and future."
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